Crossword clues for half-term
half-term
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
half-term
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Half-term is the last week in October.
▪ It rained all through half-term.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A combination of rain, half-term and roadworks.
▪ Also open weekends, half-terms, school holidays in winter.
▪ Look at the agenda and your personal notes from the staff meetings for the past half-term.
▪ May I take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and happy half-term holiday.
▪ Or would be busy sorting things out at school with the run-up to half-term.
▪ Starting at Easter, the bookings would continue more or less uninterrupted until after the autumn half-term at the end of October.
▪ They did visit him at his school for Sports Days; and Luke sometimes came home for half-terms.
▪ Those parents wishing to pay for the half-term should please send £46.90.
WordNet
half-term
n. a short vacation about halfway through a school term; "he came to visit at half-term"
Usage examples of "half-term".
She was wearing a very expensive pink T-shirt, pinched from Maud at half-term, over which all her friends had written messages in biro, a puffball skirt, laddered tights and black clumpy stompers, and was now eating muesli out of a cup with a teaspoon.